Peter H Diamandis is an American marketer, engineer, physician, and entrepreneur of Greek-American ethnicity.
30 Facts About Peter Diamandis
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Peter Diamandis is best known for being founder and chairman of the X Prize Foundation, cofounder and executive chairman of Singularity University and coauthor of The New York Times bestsellers Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, The Future is Faster than You Think, How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business, Industries, and Our Lives and BOLD: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World.
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Peter Diamandis is former CEO and cofounder of the Zero Gravity Corporation, cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures Ltd.
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From a very early age, Diamandis expressed a keen interest in space exploration.
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At age 12, Peter Diamandis won first place in the Estes Rocket Design Competition for building a launch system able to simultaneously launch three rockets.
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In 1986, Peter Diamandis put his medical degree on hold and returned to MIT to pursue a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics, conducting research at NASA Johnson Space Center, the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory and MIT's Whitehead Biomedical Institute.
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Peter Diamandis has participated on the boards of several companies throughout his career, including Hyperloop and Cogswell Polytechnical College.
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Peter Diamandis has won several awards in his field, including Economist "No Boundaries" Innovator of the Year, the Neil Armstrong Award for Aerospace Achievement and Leadership, the World Technology Award, presented by the World Technology Counsel, and the Arthur C Clarke Award for Innovation, among others.
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In 1987, during his third year of medical school, Peter Diamandis cofounded International Space University with Todd Hawley, Walter Anderson, Christopher Mau and Robert Richards.
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Peter Diamandis served as the managing director and chief operating officer of the university until 1989.
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Peter Diamandis cofounded Microsat Launch Systems, later renamed International MicroSpace Inc.
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Peter Diamandis joined CTA for one year as VP of Commercial Space Programs post-acquisition.
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Peter Diamandis was funded to deploy an equatorial ring of 10 satellites to provide communications primarily to Brazil and Indonesia.
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Constellation was sold to E-Systems and Orbital; Peter Diamandis remained director until 1993.
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In 1994, Peter Diamandis founded the X PRIZE Foundation after the failure of International MicroSpace, Inc and reading Charles Lindbergh's The Spirit of St Louis.
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Peter Diamandis serves as chairman and CEO of the foundation.
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In 1994, Peter Diamandis cofounded ZERO-G with Byron Lichtenberg and Ray Cronise.
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Between 1995 and 1999, Peter Diamandis was the president of Angel Technologies Corporation, a commercial communications company that develops wireless broadband communications networks.
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Peter Diamandis is the cofounder and vice chairman of Space Adventures.
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Peter Diamandis commented on how the initial startup cost for the project was in the region of five million dollars, which was necessary to cover the costs of the servers, bandwidth and software.
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Peter Diamandis was the chairman of RRL until it ceased business.
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In 2008, alongside American author, inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil, Peter Diamandis cofounded Singularity University.
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Today Peter Diamandis serves as the university's cofounder and executive chairman.
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Peter Diamandis has supported SENS Research Foundation, a nonprofit organization that seeks to treat and cure the diseases of aging by repairing the underlying damage caused by aging.
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In February 2018, Peter Diamandis launched Celularity, a biotechnology company productizing allogeneic cells and tissues derived from the postpartum placenta.
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In 2012, alongside Steven Kotler, Peter Diamandis coauthored Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think.
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In 2015, again alongside of Steven Kotler, Peter Diamandis coauthored another New York Times best selling book, Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World.
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Peter Diamandis has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss' book Tools of Titans.
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Peter Diamandis is married to Kristen Hladecek, having proposed in 2004.
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In February 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic, MIT Technology Review reported that Peter Diamandis held a "mostly maskless" event in Santa Monica in violation of the local stay-at-home order that became a superspreading event.